My favorite is line dried sheets and pillowcases. They smell so good. They are a secret luxury more likely to be experienced by an ordinary person than a wealthy one. (People doing the laundry of others, for payment, are not so likely to do this for them.)

My husband's grandmother lives in upstate NY. When we stayed more than a few days we washed our clothes there. She showed me now to hang clothes on a clothes line that was attached to a telephone pole a long way from the house that was on a pulley. It was the neatest thing I had ever seen. Sheets and pillowcases, were so crisp from being dried outside. Great photo and wonderful memory!

Ha! This is so my childhood! Except that my dad would hang the clothes out to dry in the (freezing cold) wintertime and we would have frozen pants to thaw when we brought them in! That, and he never quite figured out how not to leave clothespin stretch marks on our shoulders - we'd have little peaks that would stay even after wearing them. Thanks for the blast from the past!

There are two schools of thought about stiff clothes - first is put wet clothes in dryer for a few minutes and then hang, the other is to use softener, hang, dry, and throw in dryer for a few minutes with a damp washcloth. I suppose you could iron, if one knew how. This one doesn't.

In holland line-drying is still very much "in voque". Imagine farmhouses with meters of lines in their frontyard and blue coveralls billowing in the wind like the farmers are still in them. I'm with Lindy for sheets and pillowcases. My kids grumble at the feel of line dried towels (spoiled brats). We recently replaced our first! dryer after 11 years....

Someone had an online website devoted to the hanging of laundry (I can't find it now); back when I was doing my old website, I was going to do something similar and asked for laundry photos from readers - they were awesome!

This photo rocks and reminds me that I need to find those photos again...

I'm just tickled that it inspired so many amusing comments and sweet memories--not to mention valuable laundry advice. I loved reading them all. (I also loved being accused of being a color-clothing bandit. You people are a riot. And Dan & Whitey playing dress-up? What imaginations. Ahem. And Sam--that isn't my dirty laundry hanging out there.)

My favorite thing about this photo? It was totally unplanned. As Joe put it, "You couldn't have arranged that any better if you'd tried." And I didn't. I was just walking from the garden to the house (with my camera), looked over at the laundry hanging on the line, and saw a photo. I took this one picture and that was it.

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